Registering over 1,000 patents for his many inventions, this notable person had difficult beginnings, including being deaf in one ear and   very little schooling.

How did Thomas Edison both demonstrate and protect his economic rights?

Frances Willard is a reformer most closely associated with

After building a successful business in his early years, Andrew Carnegie focused his attention in his later life on philanthropy and encouraged those with wealth to give away that wealth to worthy causes. His philosophy was known as

After building a successful American steel company, this notable Scotsman dedicated his later years to helping those less fortunate.

This influential reformer was the first woman dean at Northwestern University and the first woman to be represented in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.

Creating a mass production system which used standardized parts, a division of labor, and assembly lines, this person revolutionized the auto industry.

December 17, 1903 marks the date of the -

In order to create their famous invention, Wilbur and Orville Wright engaged in a great deal of research and testing of -

Dying just five days after the end of the Scopes Monkey Trial, this notable person believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible and argued against Clarence Darrow.